8. Chapter 8
**Disclaimer: I do not own Resident Evil Capcom owns it, I just own Sora my OC.**
**Ch. 8: Island Firefights, Regenerators.**
/ Sora's POV, flashback /
After mine and Ashley's ritual was complete the man in the red beret whose name I learned to be Krauser took me and Ashley down to a boat that was about to be driven by two ganados who looked like commandos. Ash and I were pushed on the boat and it took off when Krauser had gotten in, not even half way to the island I started singing "100 Bottles of Pop" to ease up the boredom and to annoy the bloody hell out of Krauser. By the time I'd gotten to seventy-six bottles Ashley was laughing because of the look on Krauser's face.
"Seventy-five bottles of pop..." I sang before getting interrupted by Krauser.
"Shut the hell up!" the overly muscular man shouted while pinching the bridge of his nose with his thumb and forefinger to somehow calm himself down.
"Fine, that song was getting rather annoying anyway." I said before singing an obnoxious version of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" for the hell of it.
"Oh my God!" Krauser screamed then slapped a strip of duck tape over my mouth. "Finally, some silence, I swear girl if I didn't shut you up in the next few seconds I was tempted to jump out of the boat."
After Krauser had put the duck tape over my mouth I let out pitiful cries which for some reason made the two ganados feel sorry for me. Then as we were docking Ashley ripped the tape off my mouth, we got onto the dock and as Krauser was coming on the dock I got an idea in mind.
"Hey Krauser, didn't you say that you were tempted to jump in the water?" I asked knowing what his reaction would be.
"Why the hell are you bringing that up of all times?"
All I did was smile and easily push Krauser into the water with one hand, both Ashley and I were laughing at the unfortunate event the over muscular, red beret wearing male went through. To my misfortune as soon as Krauser got out of the water he grabbed Ashley and threw her over his sopping wet shoulder then grabbed my wrist and started dragging me behind him. I was trying to pull my wrist out of Krauser's grasp but it only made Krauser tighten his grip and yanked me to where I was literally being dragged like a rag doll then right when I was being dragged the man drug me through a puddle of what looked like blood.
"Oh my god! Did you just drag me through blood?" I screamed then looked at my shirt in the dim light to see a light brown color coating my black t-shirt. "Never mind, it's just rusty water . How does water get rusty?" I asked purposely trying to get on Krauser's nerves.
/ Sora's POV, present time /
Eventually Krauser did throw me onto his shoulder after getting tired of dragging me to where ever he was ordered to take us and just as he got to the last step sirens went off. Ashley and I looked to see Leon in a spotlight and hundreds of commando ganado rushed out to kill him.
"Leon help!" me and Ashley cried in unison knowing perfectly well that our cry for help would be like a surround-sound system to Krauser.
"Don't you bitches ever shut up?"
"How dare you!" I screamed punching Krauser in the back many times. "Don't you ever call us that again you motherfucking asshole .." I continued to cuss Krauser out as he carried Ashley and I to where ever he was supposed to take us.
/ Leon's POV /
After the sirens went off I started shooting many ganado, but as I killed about three of them that's when I heard Sora's colorful vocabulary before I saw her getting out of sight with Ashley. Then as I tried to run after whoever took Ashley and Sora a gunner ganado jumped down and I knew I had to take cover fast. When the gun started firing I jumped behind a wall for temporary cover and then shot the gunner ganado when I got the chance and it literally took over five clips of handgun ammo to take him out. Once I collected 15,00 ptas from the gunner man more commando ganado came out from nowhere with stun rods, maces, and shields. Since I was completely outnumbered I had the novistadors attack the ganados while I ran through the door where I last seen the girls before they were gone, but as I ran through the door there were two ganado with crossbows waiting for me.
So as fast as I could I shot the two men but got shot in my arm by the second ganado's crossbow, upon getting rid of the ganado I only managed to find myself in another battlefield but this time a few of those guys had bazookas! Where the hell did they get those from but luckily for me before I ran into the new battlefield I had found Sora's bag of weapons again which made me wonder how can one person lose their weapons all in one mission, but right now I actually needed Sora's weapons. To be rid of the bazooka wielding men I used Sora's rifle to get rid of them and to get passed the rest of them I took the liberty of using my partner's riot gun to make things a bit easier on myself. But when I managed to get to the door I found myself in a run down bunker and as I walked further in I saw what looked like an incinerator and when I was just about to walk past it a flaming ganado busted out of there to attack me. As quick as I could I pulled the riot gun trigger which killed the flaming man who had scared the hell out of me and made me wonder why he was in there.
After surviving the mini heart-attack I experienced I heard faint cries for help which sounded like it came from Ashley so to leave no second wasted I ran to the source which turned out to be a security camera.
"Help!" Ashley screamed along with banging on the door while Sora was sitting on a chair with a mixed expression on her face.
'_Sora...thank god you're okay._'
/ Sora's POV /
It had been over five minutes since Ashley had started screaming for help, I had wondered why Krauser had left us in this holding cell but I couldn't ponder any further on it because after the tenth scream for help one of our captors walked over to Ashley, grabbed her and shoved her backwards to where she fell to the floor.
"¡Cabrón!" I raised my voice in anger then got up, grabbed the ganado by the front of his shirt and slammed him against the door. "Lo juro, si daño a ella de ninguna manera, forma o forma les prometo Voy a rasgar su cabeza limpiar sus hombros, lo tienes!" I threatened the ganado in Spanish and I slammed him against the door again. " ¿Me entiendes?"
"Sí Maestra, comprender señora." the ganado replied to me for some reason cringing.
"Bien, contento de entender." (Translation to everything that happened now: You bastard! I swear if you harm her in any way, shape, or form I promise you I'll rip your head clean off your shoulders, you got it! Do you understand me!? Yes Mistress, understand ma'am. Good, glad you understand.)
Then after getting my point across the ganado I had yelled "there" for some reason and pointed to the camera, signaling the second ganado to cut the power to the video feed. After the feed was cut I was still mad and to let a little frustration out I decided to slam the ganado I still had in my grasp against the door which miraculously opened which allowed me to escape but not Ashley. Before I ran off too far I told Ashley that I'd be back with Leon then ran to my left which lead me into a garbage dump with ganado waiting with stun rods and crossbows. Since all I have is a knife I had to run for my life, but as I ran passed the first three ganado they started to come after me so I hurried up the ladder, ran through the room that controls something for the garbage room, and when I got to a door that felt cold I picked the electronic lock so I could hide. Once inside I really wished that I kept my jacket but no I just had to leave it and now I'm freezing in a room full of corpses and what looked like a spider coming out of a guy's back.
I had to back away from the spider like creature because of my arachnophobia was about to act up, I still remember the spiders I faced off against in the Arklay Mountains seven years ago but even now mutated corpses don't freak me out as bad as spiders do. A few minutes passed by and I was sick and tired of the cold so I looked around to see a button which turns off the air, without a second thought I turned off the air to hear something being thawed out. Curiosity got the best of me to find out what the thawing process was for, I walked into a narrow room to see a suitcase inside.
'_I swear if more of Luis' notes are in there I'm gonna scream!_' I thought as I opened the door to see a scope in the suitcase. '_A scope? Why would a scope be in here?_'
To find out what was so special about the scope I held it up to my eye to see everything was in infrared vision but as I was about to leave the narrow room I heard a dull thud and strangled breathing. I looked through the scope to see a body with four visible red spots in its front while my other eye saw a grayish-white human like creature with red eyes and many fangs for teeth. Seeing the creature I rapidly put the scope in my pocket, ran out of the narrow room to find out that the door out of the freezer room was locked, knowing that what ever the creature was called was right behind me so I unsheathed my knife and stabbed it in the chest. Apparently I had hit a weak spot by the way it was cringing and backing away so to take advantage of the little time I had possessed to ram against the cold door and after the second or third ram the door flew open but right as it did the grayish-white creature grabbed me and pulled me to it. I screamed in terror as I swung my knife to get the monster to let me go and when I swung my knife the blade literally sliced the head off but as I cut the head off and was released the body still kept moving!
'_I did not expect that to happen!_' I panicked then saw the head grow back. '_Shit! It regenerates!_' after that thought I ran off screaming.
/ Leon's POV /
I had just escaped the first regenerator with minimal ammo left for my shotgun and handgun, I didn't want to use Sora's ammo because I knew that if I ran into her she would need her weapons and ammunition. Just as I walked around a corner I heard what sounded like a girl screaming and the next thing I knew I was flat on my back with a terrified Sora on top of me.
"Uhh Sora..." I was about to ask until Sora started exclaiming about a creature that could regenerate.
"I'm so sorry that I ran into you Leon but there are two of those regenerating monsters after me!" Sora terrifyingly said then realized what position we were in right now. "Okay this is awkward." she said in an embarrassed tone then got off of me with her face looking beet red.
Right when Sora had gotten off of me I heard strangled breathing and it sounded very close to us so to be prepared I got up and aimed at the corner while Sora on the other hand was equipping what looked like a scope to her rifle. Upon Sora's completed rifle two regenerators came out from around the corner allowing me and Sora to start shooting. When I reloaded my shotgun I was down to only three shotgun shells left to spare while Sora was shooting in certain places, I remembered that in Luis' memo about the regenerating monsters was that their weak points were leech-like parasites inside them. But the parasites can't be seen by the human eye so with that I realized that Sora had somehow obtained an infrared scope and was able to hit the parasites. Since I didn't have a scope of any kind I was left shooting blindly, luckily just before I ran out of ammo for my shotgun I had apparently hit the last parasite in the regenerator causing it's upper body to explode and send gore our way.
Just as the regenerator I killed had blew up the one Sora was aiming at had exploded as well thus mildly covering us in blood, I could tell by the look on Sora's face that she was going to be sick from being showered twice in blood and guts. Before I could ask if she was alright Sora raised her hand to silence me and started to walk away, I quickly followed Sora to make sure she didn't get into more trouble or fall into a random trap which seems she's proned to. By the time Sora and I managed to get the waste disposal room I looked out the window to see about four or five ganados; two with crossbows, one with a stun rod, and one with nothing. I saw that Sora was just about to walk out the door out of here until I stopped her and said that I could operate the crane from here and drop the ganado in the garbage chute. With that I activated the crane and started grabbing the ganado who were fortunately close together and dropped them in the chute to fall to their deaths.
"You missed one," Sora informed me, "there behind the dumpster, the little chicken."
"Thanks Sky." I thanked, using the English translation of Sora's name as a nickname.
"You're...what'd you call me?" my partner questioned me obviously never had a nickname from anyone.
"Sky, did you know that your name is Japanese for 'sky'? I took Japanese classes in high school so that's how I know what your name means and I figured that I could use the translation of your name as a nickname, if it's okay with you?" I explained to Sora.
"Sure you can use that as a nickname."
After getting rid of the last ganado and getting permission to use a nickname for Sora, we exited the room and miraculously found Sora's three novistadors. I had wondered where they flew off to but I didn't bother to ask because Sora was just overjoyed to see her mutant pets back with her after being without them for so long. So after the short reunion Sora and I ran through the door out of the disposal room and in a hallway where there were two heavily armored ganados standing guard in front of Ashley's room. I looked at Sky who had a smile on her face to see what she had planned to do, then she signaled the three novistadors forward I had a feeling I knew what my partner was up to and what she was up to was in our favor. Hearing what sounded like liquid being splashed on the floor and Ashley screaming Sky and I ran to see Ashley but unfortunately the door was locked.
"Ashley are you okay?" I asked her hoping she was since it was mine and Sora's job to keep Ashley safe.
"Yeah, I am, mostly thanks to Sora." Ashley replied to me, "but why are those bugs here?"
"They're mine, somehow I can control them." Sora said to Ashley.
"Just like the monks... hey why didn't you tell those guys who had us in here to let us go?"
"Didn't think about it at the time, but other than that where's the key? Did you see where the ganado placed the key to this door?" Sora questioned Ashley hoping for an answer.
"I saw them go through that door over there," Ms. Graham told us, pointing to the nearest door. "That's where the man with the key went."
"Thanks Ashley we'll be right back after we get the key."
"Novistadors guard the door and don't let any ganado move you aside." Sora commanded then caught up with me at the door and went through.
When we went though the door we found ourselves getting ambushed by ganado with stun rods and shields. Before I could react, a ganado had shocked both me and Sora with his stun rod, for that I had aimed my shotgun at the ganado but before I got the chance to shoot him he had plunged his stun rod in his own body. As the ganado dissolved in the ground I noticed that Sky seemed a tad winded but then regained some of her composure and commanded the remaining ganado to kill themselves and that's what they did without a moment to think about it.
"Sky, may I ask you something?"
"If it's about how I made the ganados kill themselves then your answer is the Las Plagas." Sora replied to me while collecting ammo and grenades.
"Okay."
After Sky finished collecting ammo she gave half of it to me since I was pretty close to being out and after reloading my guns once more we ran down the stairs and ran through a door which lead us to an experimentation room. Then as Sora and I walked through another door a monitor lit up showing another regenerator but this one was different it had spikes all over it and it had something we wanted, the card key to Ashley's cell. When the strangled breathing was heard Sky started to freak out but recuperated herself by readying her rifle while I got my shotgun ready. When the regenerator was in sight Sora shot the parasites as fast as she could while I shot it to keep it back, after the fourth shot Sora was aiming her gun in all directions trying to find the last parasite since it was still alive. Thinking that the parasite was on the regenerator's back I shot out its leg, forcing it to squirm on the floor, then right as I did that Sky quickly thanked me and fired her rifle when the parasite was hit Sky dove behind a desk leaving me to be splattered in regenerator intestines and blood.
"Sorry Leon but I didn't want to be showered in blood and guts again." Sky apologized as she got out from behind the desk and picked up a silver card key with a yellow transparent Los Illuminados insignia. "Now let's get Ashley before those ganados find my novistadors." she added and began to walk passed me before I stopped her to tell her we should search the place for more ammunition.
Once Sora reluctantly agreed we ended up finding a lot of herbs, two boxes of rifle ammo and one box of shotgun ammo, when we finished cleaning out the room Sky mentioned to me that Saddler may have been doing tests on the regenerators on account of seeing the petri dishes with a grotesque sample in it. I had told her not to worry about it and walked out of the room to find another door which had lead to a radio tower, I quickly informed Sora about the radio tower and she bolted out of the room. From that I knew Sora wanted to call for back-up as much as I wanted to then as we took an elevator up to the tower and got out Sora broke out a window and jumped in... that's one way of getting in. When I got in through Sora's man-made entrance I ran to the radio mic, tuned it to the U.S. frequency and tried to call for back-up but all I heard was static.
"Shit!" I cursed under my breath when I couldn't get my request for back-up through.
"Seems like we're still on our own, right"
"You don't know how right you are Sky." I told my partner who started to walk out the door.
"Come on, let's go get Ashley so we can get out of here." Sora told me as she was now heading to the elevator.
/ Sora's POV /
By the time we got back to where we fought the Iron Maiden, the spiky regenerator, and started to back track to get back to the room Ashley was held captive but in Leon and I had to fight a lot of ganado luckily for us it was easy kill except for the plagas heads with the bladed tentacle. So when we got to the door to Ashley's room I used the card key and the door unlocked allowing us to get in the room, Leon was the first to run into the room to find that Ashley was in the back of the room. I swear I have the most rotten luck with timing because as I got in the room I saw Ashley throw her arms around Leon once again and I had gotten hit in the head with a paper airplane! In the time lapse that Leon was trying to get Ashley off of him I read the note which informed that the garbage chute was out exit so I placed the note between Leon and Ashley, exited the room, and I saw about three normal ganados and a huge one with armor on. Then seeing them I got my riot gun out and shot every single ganado in the room before Leon got the chance to come out and help me out, then as me, Leon, Ashley, and my three novistadors got to the waste disposal room Ashley complained about the stench coming from the chute.
"Please don't tell me we have to jump down there?" Ashley asked looking down in the chute.
"Yes we have to... or you could fly down which would you prefer?" I asked Ashley not intentionally planning on letting Ashley use my novistador for something so trivial.
"Fly please."
"Okay," I said before pushing her over the edge and covered my ears from her screaming.
"Why did you have to push her?" Leon questioned me when I uncovered my ears.
"She did saw she wanted to fly."
"Ashley meant to fly on your novistador."
"Ohh, oops my bad." I said to Leon then jumped over the edge to make sure Ashley was safe.
When I landed on a pile of garbage I got to see Ashley's face as red as a tomato and then grab me by my shirt collar.
"I should shoot you right now for doing that." Ashley threatened while digging through her skirt pocket for her handgun. "Where's my gun!?"
"You mean this gun?" I playfully asked, holding the handgun out on my index finger.
"How'd you?"
"I snatched it out of your skirt pocket before I pushed you." I admitted to the angry blonde.
"Will you two just cool it!" Leon yelled at me and Ashley then looked at the floor and had a horrified looked on his face.
"What's wrong Leon?" Ashley and I said in unison which was really starting to get creepy.
"Look at what you're standing on." was all he said and caused me and Ash to look down.
Ashley and I looked down to see that we were standing on an Iron Maiden I felt like I was going to have a heart-attack at any moment while miss Ashley here ran to the door out of this section of the room. I on the other hand had slowly got off the Iron Maiden who was still laying on the floor and backed away with Leon. I heard what sounded like a gate sliding open then all of a sudden the Iron Maiden sprung to life and started coming after us, Leon told us to get to the other room and right as we did that Leon pulled a lever to shut the gate on the Iron Maiden. When Leon had shut the gate on the Iron Maiden I got out my rifle to shoot it but before I shot the spiky regenerator I noticed there were footprints on its face and abdomen. When I saw those prints I couldn't help but chuckle a bit then started shooting it until Leon called me as he opened the second gate.
"Sora come on!" Leon called me as he and Ashley ran out.
As I ran to catch up the Iron Maiden somehow opened the gate allowing it to come after us but also allowed my novistadors to catch up. To prevent the Iron Maiden from following I ordered my novistadors to kill the Iron Maiden as I ran to Leon and Ashley who were getting ready to push a metal crate until I mentioned we could just jump across since I still heard strangled breathing behind me and one novistador returned to me.
"Damn it those regenerators don't know when to quit!"
"You can say that again, now let's get going!" I exclaimed, pulling the lever to bring the gate down to but ourselves more time.
Once the gate was down Leon climbed on the crate then jumped to the other side, I quickly followed and when I had made it across the only one left was Ashley who refused to jump.
"Ashley what are you waiting for? Get over here right now before you decide to get yourself impaled!" I yelled at her while she just stood on the crate scared.
"No I can't, I'll fall I just know it."
"Ashley now's not the time to go chicken on us, get over here now!" I yelled once more and getting more pissed off at the blonde.
"No!" the blonde yelled back while looking at the Iron Maiden who was pounding at the gate.
"Ashley just jump, I'm right here to catch you." Leon tried to assure the scared blonde by standing only a few centimeters from the edge.
Just as I was about to jump back over to get her my last novistador flew over, grabbed Ashley and flew back over to me and Leon. After Ashley was on her feet I angrily walked up to her and told her that my novistador helping her was a freebie and if she didn't do what me or Leon say in a life or death situation I would just leave her. The President's daughter was shocked to hear that from me but I ignored her and walked away from her to pick up some rifle ammo and a green herb. But when Leon and I walked around the corner to get out of here we saw yet another Iron Maiden, I could've swore that Leon and I said the exact same thing when we saw the last Iron Maiden. Then on instinct Leon and I got out our guns and started shooting but on my third rifle shot and Leon's shotgun blast I noticed the door being blacked by a metal crate but left enough space for me, Leon, Ashley, and my novistador to get through.
Once I mentioned the space above the box Leon told me and Ashley that we have to be quick to get to the exit and with that I managed to shoot the Iron Maiden's head off to give us some time. During the extra time we had we sped towards the exit, Ashley crawled through first, I was the second one through and Leon was last along with being followed by my novistador. As soon as we were through I reloaded my gun along with Leon just in case we had to face more enemies, after reloading we opened the door out and we ended up on a loading dock with a bull dozer. Before we had to venture on Ashley was about to get in the driver's seat of the bull dozer until I grabbed the back of her sweater to hold her back and heard Leon sigh.
"Just where do you think you're going Ashley?"
"I'm going to drive the dozer what's it to you?"
"Do you even have a license?" I asked afraid that the blonde would say no.
"Of course I do... do you?"
"I got it when I was sixteen!"
"Will someone drive the bull dozer before we may have company on our asses!" Leon rushed and not to happy that Ashley and I were arguing about who was going to drive the bull dozer.
"Okay we'll flip a coin, heads I get to drive, tails Ashley gets to drive." I said as I took out a quarter from my pocket and flipped it.
On the first flip it landed on heads, the second flip had landed on tails so the last flip would decide it all and on the third and final flip the coin landed on tails which meant Ashley was going to drive. Leon and I quickly got in the back but I had seated myself behind Ashley so that I could shoot anything that would happen to be in front of us while Leon covered the rear, as soon as Ash got the dozer started we already had to break through a wall which was pretty interesting but once we got a few feet away from where we started about ten to twenty ganados started coming after us from behind.
/ Leon's POV /
When the ganados appeared and ran after us I got out my handgun and started shooting them along with Sora who had decided to help me out when she thought there would be no one in the front. After shooting all ten that were after us about five more came out from no where and just when I thought it couldn't get worse a truck starts coming after us and intended to ram into us. So as the truck was picking up speed Sky and I were shooting at the truck like mad with our shotguns knowing it would do a lot more damage since shotgun shells have more of a scatter shot which could get rid of the truck along with some of the ganado. Luckily for us the truck had burst into flames and had stopped but after we got farther away the truck had started back up again causing me and Sora to start shooting the truck like mad again. After a number of shots the truck had stopped for good and so did the dozer so Ashley could break through a wall that was blocking our path. While Ashley was breaking our path open the ganados had managed to regroup and start coming at us in hordes, I switched back to my handgun just in time for the ganados to start jumping on the back of the dozer and begin attacking us.
I could tell Sora was having a hard time getting at least a few ganado dead since they were grouping together but thankfully they were grouped together because that gave me a chance to use some grenades I had been saving for a time like this. Since some of the ganado were on the ground and have not yet gotten close to the dozer I threw my grenade and it blew up when a whole group of them gotten on it. After the wall in front of us was torn down many more ganado had appeared but this time there were some in front so Sky had to shoot the ones that may try to ambush us from above. After getting rid of what seemed like hundreds of ganado Sora had managed to shoot down four ganado standing on catwalks and had Ashley run them over when they landed on the ground. Then as soon as the last wall we drove into was out there were no more ganado coming after us and a horn blaring was sounded but instead of it being behind us the truck was in front us.
"Oh shit!" I swore, shooting at the truck with my shotgun while Sora shot once with her rifle and quickly switched out the rifle with her riot gun and started shooting.
After the truck had burst into flames it still kept coming due to the truck rolling downhill so without even a warning Ashley had rapidly turned the wheel to where we would crash into a building to avoid getting killed. Once we rammed all the way through Ashley, Sora, and I were flown out of the dozer and fell into a state of temporary unconsciousness.
